Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Tomek Sulkowski about web containers, StackBlitz and more!

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Guests

• Tomek Sulkowski

Show Notes

02:45 - What is StackBlitz?

05:28 - What makes it different?

08:20 - How does offline work?

12:18 - What are web containers? How does this fit in?

17:45 - How does this all work (WASM, Node.js in the browser, etc.)?

21:00 - What does performance look like?

31:06 - What about VS Code extensions?

32:48 - Monorepos?

35:12 - Databases? Sqlite?

35:36 - Are there any limitations?

37:02 - What is Turbo?

40:58 - How is this different from similar apps?

Links

• https://stackblitz.com/
• https://jsbin.com/?html,output
• https://jsfiddle.net/
• https://codepen.io/
• https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Fugu API Tracker (fugu-tracker.web.app)
• https://www.docker.com/
• https://spidermonkey.dev/
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
• https://sli.dev/
• https://vscode.dev/
• https://codesandbox.io/
• https://www.gitpod.io/

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